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How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around...

Sweat Is Helping You Survive Climate Change

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Under the relentless sun...

New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods

Two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ian dumped up to 10 inches of rain on New...

Curbing pedestrian stops might not reduce police-civilian encounters

Any encounter between police and civilians has the potential to go awry (SN: 11/17/21). Stop and frisk,...

New York City Is Drowning

New York and the surrounding areas are under a flash flood warning, and the city and state...

The right bacterial mix could help frogs take the heat

Some of a green frog’s heat tolerance might come from its microbiome. Put a wood frog tadpole...

Which Spider-Man Is Stronger: Tobey Maguire or Tom Holland?

Although Spider-Man started as a comic book character, he has made his way to live-action video several...

A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations

Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens...

An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs

Think back to any dinosaur illustration you saw as a kid. The background was almost certainly one...

New computer analysis hints volcanism killed the dinosaurs, not an asteroid

For decades, scientists have vigorously debated whether an asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruptions ended the reign...

New JWST images suggest our understanding of the cosmos is flawed

The greatest puzzle in cosmology just got even more puzzling. Images from the James Webb Space Telescope...

DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Earlier this month, state police in Connecticut held a “DNA drive” in an effort to help identify...
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